Re: Organizations with two or more Managers

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:qNnAd.34$oQ6.138_at_news.oracle.com...
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> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message
> news:LqnAd.33$oQ6.120_at_news.oracle.com...
> > "Alan" <not.me_at_rcn.com> wrote in message
> > news:33ecgoF3v8cqpU1_at_individual.net...
> > > There's a common sitiation where a person reports directly to a
manager
> > but
> > > has a "dotted line" relationship with another person. The "dotted
line"
> > > reasons vary wildly, but the relationship is real.
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> > OK. The question is how often (if ever) the users ask to find a chain of
> > supervisors by dotted relationship.
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> More questions. How does a supervisor manages his budget? (I have in mind
> all kind of aggregated total queries that are common to run against
ordinary
> hierarchy). Does the budget include everybody in the dotted relationship
as
> well?

It depends on a multitude of factors.

What if one employee has at least two distinct paths to some
> supervisor? Does it mean he is getting twice the salary out of the
> supervisor's budget?

Unlikely, but it depends..

There is no set answer to your situation. Every organization is different. However, I would suggest that there are a reasonably finite number of possibilities that can all be modeled.

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Received on Thu Dec 30 2004 - 00:12:23 CET